justwatch has its issues too. like on certain browsers it's hard to find every film by a certain director
i think I might hit 300 this year! That would be the most since I was maybe in my early 20s and never did anything but watch two or three movies a night.
The seventh movie has one of my favorite moments in any movie in the last ten years so...whatever, I think they're pretty goddamn good.
Yeah, I think they got stale right around Order of the Phoenix (and so visually dark/hard to look at), but as a whole, I think the series holds up well, MUCH better than the MCU flicks imo. JK Rowling sucks but those early films are great comfort watches for me.
The humor in the HP films at least doesn't feel forced like in the MCU stuff, I think. but yeah fuck JK.
I don't remember it being a cultural phenomenon when I was growing up. We went from Power Rangers to Star Wars to Pokemon to South Park to Dragonball Z. By the time the movies were coming out I would not have wanted to be caught watching something like that.
HP is a thing where the movies are so wrapped up in my childhood memories that trying to critique them as an adult feels very alien to me.
those are legitimately awful. i wasn’t counting them. the reveal in the second one might be worse than anything in rise of skywalker